I like to announce my smalltalk port of mustache templates.
Mustache is a popular templating engine that is supported in many programming
languages. I know at least that is quite common to be used in javascript but
see at the languages it supported yourself [1].
A basic usage is something like (just paste it to workspace after loading
Mustache):
---
templateString := 'Hello {{name}},
this is {{templatingEngine}} for {{recipient}}.
{{# cheerUp }}
Have fun!
{{/ cheerUp }}'.
context := {
'name' -> 'pharo community'.
'templatingEngine' -> 'mustache'.
'recipient' -> 'you'.
'cheerUp' -> true } asDictionary.
templateString asMustacheTemplate value: context
---
Context objects can be Dictionaries or regular objects. It is also easy to feed
via json e.g. using NeoJSON
templateString asMustacheTemplate value: (NeoJSONReader fromString: …)
I wrote a blog article about it and the usage in smaltlalk on my blog [2]. The
code I have just released on smalltalkhub [3]. Documentation about the syntax
to use is available under [4]. To load it do
Gofer it
smalltalkhubUser: 'NorbertHartl' project: 'Mustache';
configurationOf: 'Mustache';
loadStable.
The code is not very old so there might be bugs (this is supposed to be the
standard disclaimer). If you find something not working as expected just drop
me a note. The engine produces at the moment more whitespaces than you can see
in the examples. I need to figure out the rule first and will release a new
version. Nevertheless I consider it useful by now. But you decide and hopefully
give me feedback.
Norbert
[1] http://mustache.github.io/
[2] http://norbert.hartl.name/blog/2013/10/03/mustache-templates-for-smalltalk/
[3] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~NorbertHartl/Mustache
[4] http://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html
